Hello, I am Peluchín

[Peluchín]

Hello, while I was looking for information in the web I found your link... Now I am a member. Congratulations for this idea of sharing comments on exams and applications!

I am in the process of applying to several universities, I have already decided which ones for my MS/Ph.D in Environmental Engineering and sciences. I don´t know if these Us are good choices, I have reviewed the programs and I think they suit me well. Maybe you can tell more about their rankings in Environmental and the possibility of admission according to my records.

TOEFL (09/25/2003): 250 / L:25-S,W:25-R:25-Essay: 4.5
GRE (11/05/2003): Q:800 V:470 AW:3.5 (very low)

University of California–Berkeley Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Johns Hopkins University Southern Methodist University Texas A&M University–College Station Texas Tech UniversityUniversity of California–RiversideUniversity of Southern California (Andrew and Erna Viterbi)

Ah! I am from Perú (South America)

Thanks a lot!!!

[Erin]

First of all, sea bienvenido! (welcome!)

I hope you can learn a lot from our forums.

[Peluchín]

Hello everybody, I just wanted to let you know about the results of my application Process, see:

I applied to:

-Berkeley-Not accepted
-Carnegie Mellon-Accepted with a scholarship of US$ 10.000
-Cornell-Not Accpeted
-UIUC-Not Accepted
-Johns Hopkins-Accepted, with 50% tuition scholarship
-Southern Methodist U-Accepted, no financial Aid
-Texas Tech-Accepted, no financial aid
-Texas AYM-Accepted, no financial aid
-University of California Riverside-Accepted with a Fellowship, and a TA and RA that covers all the expenses... for two years, could you tell me more about this university and his Environmental Sciences Program? Life in Riverside? etc...
-University of Southern California-I will have an answer next week

Should I accept UCR? I think it is my best option.

Thank you,

[Econ]

congrats for the great admits!!!

btw, I vote (b)

@Gstergia: please tell your pinguine to terminate now his vacations and come back here with us

[Dingus]

Yeah! The Shiba pales before the Shaman. The penguin, on the other hand, was quite the champ.

I vote for (b) too. Guess why?

NB: Peluchin, your thread is now also in the success forum, check it out.

[Erin]

And I've cleaned up this thread a bit by removing the poll and splitting off the off-topic comments into a new thread in the Lounge (Erin did you change your avatar???).